RELATED PRACTICES

RELATED INDUSTRIES

Our Land Use and Zoning group advises clients regarding zoning matters, regulatory reviews and government entitlements related to the development and use of land.

Our attorneys guide a development project through the process from initial meetings with government officials, municipal departments, and community stakeholders to final approval and permitting. We advise clients regarding land use, annexation, economic redevelopment, affordable housing and historic preservation issues. Members of the Land Use and Zoning group have gained their experience from working on numerous large and small scale multi-family, mixed use, commercial, institutional and municipal entitlement projects. They have experience beyond the real estate development industry, specifically in health care, wireless communications, entertainment, manufacturing, and financial services. They also counsel clients in the areas of development incentives, specifically, tax increment financing (TIF), business districts, enterprise zones and special service areas.

Our attorneys pride themselves on staying on top of development trends and the resultant changing regulatory framework, including changes related to transit oriented developments, affordable housing, and environmental sustainability requirements. Our team enjoys strong relationships with local municipal officials and provides clients with a clear path to success, maneuvering through neighborhood concerns, municipal regulations and political frameworks. They routinely obtain successful outcomes for clients despite community opposition and regulatory roadblocks.

Licensing/Permitting

Our firm regularly handles municipal permitting and licensing issues on behalf of clients. These matters include obtaining business and liquor licenses and various approvals and permits required for business operations. We also advise clients regarding building code issues, and regularly represent clients before the Chicago Department of Administrative Hearings in business license, zoning and building code violation cases.

Representative Matters

Successfully served as counsel for the master developer of a 1,600 acre planned development in a Chicago collar county that involved negotiations with the county, surrounding municipalities, school and library districts, the forest preserve district and local sanitary district

Obtained approvals for hundreds of transit oriented development (“TOD”) multi-family residential dwelling units in mixed use developments throughout Chicago and nearby municipalities

Serve as local land use counsel for a national retail chain, advising the client on due diligence, land use, permitting and signage issues

Obtained planned development approvals for national homebuilding companies for high-rise mixed use developments

Our attorneys handled all aspects of zoning, real estate and environmental due diligence with respect to the acquisition of more than 10 light-industrial properties as part of a $108 million acquisition

We successfully handled the development of an 80,000-square-foot senior residential building with approximately 85 units, ancillary uses, offices and parking.

Please read before continuing

NOTICE.
Although we would like to hear from you, we cannot represent you until we know that
doing so will not create a conflict of interest. Also, we cannot treat unsolicited
information as confidential. Accordingly, please do not send us any information
about any matter that may involve you until you receive a written statement from
us that we represent you (an ‘engagement letter’).

By clicking the ‘ACCEPT’ button, you agree that we may review any information you
transmit to us. You recognize that our review of your information, even if you submitted
it in a good faith effort to retain us, and, further, even if you consider it confidential,
does not preclude us from representing another client directly adverse to you, even
in a matter where that information could and will be used against you. Please click
the ‘ACCEPT’ button if you understand and accept the foregoing statement and wish
to proceed.